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I Fagiolini: Insalata I Fagiolini

When: Fri., April 24, 8 p.m. 2015Price: $10-$38

Yes, this is an English early music choir named “The Little Beans,” not a Monty Python outtake. The six singers of I Fagiolini are experts in historical performance but also, as their name might indicate, purveyors of an irreverent approach to a very old repertoire. This program, “Insalata I Fagiolini,” is a smattering of Renaissance secular polyphony cleverly packaged as a meal. There will be an amuse-bouche from Senfl and entrees provided by Janequin and others. The meat course comes, naturally, from the king of the madrigal genre, Claudio Monteverdi. —Will Robin